Front and centre is the Xmas Adventure, our tour for the festive season. You can book any of these tours as a team building event.
In teams, you puzzle your way through Colchester, collect points, and afterwards celebrate the team with the most points over dinner. The programme comes from myCityHunt, you choose the venue and menu yourselves.
A Christmas party in Colchester with myCityHunt works because the two halves fit together. We bring the programme, you bring the venue and the menu — and since the teams are already moving through the centre of Colchester, the restaurant is never more than a short walk from the last clue. No coaches, no detours, just a straight line from the final riddle to the table.
The programme itself is a puzzle tour, played through the app on each team's own phone. Depending on what suits your group, that can be a Xmas Adventure, an Escape Game, a Murder Mystery Tour or a Treasure Hunt — all built on the same idea, teams working a fixed route together rather than following a guide. The app sets the riddles, codes and photo challenges, takes in the answers, and keeps score as the teams make their way past Balkerne Gate, the Jumbo Water Tower or the Hollytrees Museum. A team chat keeps everyone connected, a leaderboard shows who is ahead, and a shared gallery fills up with photos along the way. Around four kilometres on foot, about three hours, nothing to carry but a charged phone.
Each tour in Colchester follows its own set route, so the app leads every team along the same stations — how quickly they get through it is entirely up to them. Pricing starts from £ 15.99 per person plus VAT, and you choose the date and time when you book, right up to two days beforehand. Invoice, credit card or PayPal all work, and you always get a proper VAT invoice.
Our customers come from a wide variety of sectors. Whether industry, retail, government or services: myCityHunt scavenger hunts are an excellent teambuilding event for your company outing, department party or team event - and that at 6,465 locations around the world.
How about a puzzle tour through Colchester with the myCityHunt app as the program before dinner? Your team heads out in small groups, solves challenges at landmarks across the city, and competes team against team for the top spot on the live leaderboard. Several themes are available, and the tour ends in time for the meal.
The tour comes before the meal: about three hours outdoors in Colchester, and everyone is back in time for dinner. You book the restaurant, and the program before it comes from myCityHunt. For the organizer, that leaves little more to do than picking the date and putting the teams together.
A Christmas party that starts out in the city instead of at the table: your company splits into teams and heads through Colchester before the meal, collecting points against the other teams. If a team gets stuck, a myCityHunt guide is just a chat message away. The date is yours to pick, even at short notice in December, and venue and menu stay entirely your decision.
The tour through Colchester is priced from £ 15.99 per person, and you receive an invoice for the booking. Food and drinks afterward are planned by you, so the budget for the evening stays in your hands.
Yes, in a single booking, split into teams that all start together. The price per person stays the same regardless of group size. Mixing departments when forming the teams works well and gets colleagues talking who otherwise rarely cross paths.
You choose the date and the time. The booking is valid for any day you like, in December just like the rest of the year, and the tour starts once the whole team has arrived. Short-notice bookings work too.
Around three hours. That makes it the first half of the evening: the tour first, then dinner with plenty to talk about.
The tour takes place outdoors in Colchester, and you can pause it at any point. If the rain gets heavy or the snow piles up, warm up somewhere dry and pick up right where you left off. Warm jackets and sturdy shoes are part of a Christmas party in December.